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07 Oct 2026 01:30:14
Bayern interested in Gary for 60 mill. Not enough. Don't sell.

08 Oct 2026 00:41:51
At this time, don't sell for £160M.

08 Oct 2026 01:26:40
Spose that's what a majority of mid table clubs have to do. Sell to improve. 80 would get us a good replacement and decent striker.

08 Oct 2026 14:06:46
I'd take 80.

08 Oct 2026 14:08:48
Agree with Aus - if we have the chance to double our money I think we would take it.

08 Oct 2026 15:10:28
Have the replacement lined up and confirmed before we sell him, and indeed two or three others. Don't want other clubs knowing we would be flush. They can speculate we might be but if we buy after selling they'd know it.

£80m would be a good price. £100m if its a Prem team. You don't 'want' to sell these players but if we do it means we've had a terrific season and that player's had a good season.

£80m buys a replacement, buys the replacement/upgrade on Nmecha. Maybe a little change.

08 Oct 2026 20:51:33
In the long term we don't want to be a selling club but at the moment we have to take a pragmatic view until we get fully established in the Premier League.
We have a fairly solid defence but if we get an enormous fee for Gary all the previous posters are right that we can get a good replacement and a good striker and maybe have a bit left over to improve our squad ratio figures. I'd be sorry to see him go but think that JR, Elvedi, etc can step up.

06 Oct 2026 19:49:20
Interesting to see Pavel Sulk tonight. He had a good start against us in the last match until he got sent off. His name has been linked with us for some time.

06 Oct 2026 21:37:24
Not top of the list. Move on.

05 Oct 2026 07:58:45
In the summer window when it was thought we were looking for a striker, one name that featured a few times was Nicolo Tresoldi at Club Brugge. He was born in Italy, but has played for the German U21 team. His form so far this season has been good with 3 league goals and 1 in Champions League. Worth keeping an eye on.

06 Oct 2026 18:24:39
He didn't have a great return last season in Europe but one every two games in the Belgium League. We need to look far and wide because Nmecha might not be here next season and DCL needs some good back up.

Just wondering where Matteo Joseph fits in this puzzle. Is he going once he's recovered from the ACL injury? Allegedly some of the hierarchy would like to keep him.

07 Oct 2026 01:04:30
Problem with Joseph is that potential buyers are going to want to see him playing, to decide whether he's worth a punt after many months out with a ACL injury. He's unlikely to be playing for us, so to put him in the shop window, a short-term loan seems the most likely option, and depending on how he does we can then decide whether to keep him or not.

07 Oct 2026 14:42:35
Don't think Joseph even champ standard. Will need to loan lower league or serie A lol. Anyway. No bucks for mats.

04 Oct 2026 19:56:13
Jack Moylan. Signed for Cardiff from Lincoln this summer. Definitely a player we should be looking at.
I think the lad has talent:

06 Oct 2026 07:56:52
Will watch out for him, Corkey, as he's a player I know nowt about!

25 Sep 2026 15:47:05
Just reading the citeh have been found guilty of breaking financial regs. If they are in the s*** financially, I think it could be worth putting in a loan bid for Haaland to come home.

25 Sep 2026 17:21:21
He makes about 600k a week not to mention the world record setting loan fee City would demand.

We know they've been found guilty but the report isn't even technically published yet, hopefully within hours. Give it another year and another commission for them to decide what the actual sanction will be.

Another year for City to appeal that sanction to the Premier League. Another year on top of that when they appeal to CAS. Give it three years before any relegation or points deductions even begin to materialise.

Even if Haaland decide he's been lied to and wants out. Madrid and Barcelona will be calling.

The romantic in me wants it of course, the realist knows it wont happen or he'll be 36 when we get a shot, not at 26.

25 Sep 2026 19:03:34
This is probably not yet the end of the story, but my bet is that they'll eventually wriggle out of it somehow or at worst just be given a rap on the knuckles and no significant punishment.
I recommend a £50M fine and relegation to League 2, but hell will freeze over before that's going to happen.

25 Sep 2026 19:18:56
Sorry JR, if they are found guilty then unless there is a really severe penalty then the whole game is brought in to disrepute and opens the door for every other club to break the rules without any threat of punishment.


Chelsea reached an agreement but Man City were arrogant enough to think they could get away with it. No contrition. No humility.
If they appeal the penalties could be even more severe.

25 Sep 2026 20:08:22
Isn't the appeal process under the same time constraints as the Southampton one? i.e. has to be concluded in a set number of days? Both appeal and ruling.

25 Sep 2026 21:05:39
I fervently hope you're right Dun, but I have a nagging feeling that they'll get away with a mega fine (a few £10Ms) and a huge points deduction (say 30-50 points) but crucially will still be in the Prem the next season, because they'll be seen as too big to fail.

25 Sep 2026 22:14:17
Don't think there's a time limit on the appeal but the unidentified panel will also make the recommendation on sanctions. They probably know what they are but will they release them before the appeal against the guilty verdicts?

26 Sep 2026 07:27:31
Appeal within 14 days but no time limit on how long before a decision made. A new panel hears the appeal including someone with a judicial background.

26 Sep 2026 07:37:12
Cheers for the info, Dunelm. There should defo be a time limit on setting the punishment! Can't see them taking forever tho, given everyone will be waiting in the wings to have a legal bite of Citeh themselves!

26 Sep 2026 08:35:46
Interesting listening to the reaction of City fans. Most, including Noel Gallagher, took a fairly balanced view and didn't try to defend the club. Some, however, said they didn't like the regulations and that they were specifically aimed at City so the club were right to ignore them.
It's like saying I don't like the offside rule so it doesn't apply to us.
Agree Bright, it will be interesting to see what the other PL clubs demand in compensation.

Burnley got over £30m from Everton for a relatively minor breach of the rules but one that could possibly have contributed to Burnley's relegation.
This should be a good time for the PL to ensure that all these dodgy accounting practices are permanently stopped and although it will never be a totally level playing field it will reduce the chances of buying success.

26 Sep 2026 09:49:09
In reply to Ealing, City can't appeal to CAS. They can appeal to a new independent PL panel with a judicial member but that's it. The clubs are signed up to that.

26 Sep 2026 11:59:50
yep saw, someone mention that after I posted.

26 Sep 2026 15:19:33
If there's no time limit before a final decision, that's a shame, because the lawyers will string it out as long as they can to maximise their fees.
Whatever the verdict on appeal, are further appeals allowed, or is that it?

23 Sep 2026 17:41:18
Dan James looking to leave in January as for Bahoya may not be staying at Leeds as Farkey is not impressed with is out put on the training ground. In Leeds news.

23 Sep 2026 18:08:02
Come on White man
Because some nobody prints a rubbish story due to having nothing constructive to write about now for 3 weeks,,you can honestly believe the muck that you read

There no way Danny would put that into public domain even if it were true.
The lad will get his run,he now has a nice break to just get to know team properly and every day that scenario improves.

23 Sep 2026 22:46:12
Not sure on DJ but with Anton stach recently playing further up the pitch it does mean 2 positions (LW/RW) or (LW/AM) or whatever the 2 positions end up being behind the striker.

It leaves
Aaronsson
Stach
Wilson
Okafor
James
Bahoya

All fighting for 2 positions. Sometimes stach plays deeeper and tanaka drops out but still means some1 misses out. I know they play different sides but specifically the right side seems to be Stach / Wilson / Arronson / James.

So it wouldn't surprise me if James if weighing up his options in January subject to his desire to play regularly or bench warm.

24 Sep 2026 10:04:30
The little tweak on formation has caused a few problems. I'm glad he made it. It was necessary. But leaves a few players scrapping for one spot really. Bayou untried and Wilson and stack underwhelming. And Okafor and James on different wings.

It's a conundrum. Think adding an extra mf instead of having two wingers a good thing. Bogle and Justin more than enough poke on that side. Leaving Okafor on his own. Or no Okafor and ba or Wilson.

25 Sep 2026 00:20:20
If James wants to go, I'd say let him. Full respect for giving his all for years. Work rate not in doubt. A pace merchant who couldn't deliver, somewhat harshly i feel half his goals have been mishits. But he often tracked back, tried. Even if it led to penalty awards against like Chelsea.

But a pace merchant past his best? Too good for the championship at his peak but not good enough for prem. Now a clear Championship player. A fair amount still on his contract too. Hopefully we can convince Wrexham he's worth a punt as they try to go up. Maybe a low upfront fee in Jan with a clause giving us a few more million if they come up.

25 Sep 2026 00:44:00
Wrexham's highest paid player Keiffer Moore is on £30, 000 a week

Dan James on £85, 000 a week till June 2029

No chance DJ leaving Leeds imo.

26 Sep 2026 12:07:15
Doesn't mean we can't subsidise an exit in fairness. Happens all the time. If we wanted a fee (hypothetically) of £7m and Wrexham or someone else says we can't afford those wages, we take £2m. The difference between 30K a week and 80K a week is about £2.6m. So we offer to subsidise a few years of James' money (maybe have a clause written in that we don't if they get promoted) . We get a small fee and not insignificant salary relief for a depreciating asset with a chance to recoup fees for a side trending towards promotion.

Realistically, I'd expect Wrexham if they moved for James, to pay him more than an ageing Kieffer Moore, maybe not a lot more, but closer to 35K-40K too.

23 Sep 2026 13:31:33
Just a post note to my comments yesterday that I respect not everyone will like the fact I have questioned whether our owners have done their absolute best to give our magnificent loyal and patient fan base the very best squad/team on the pitch to cheer.

I think they are doing a good job but I personally think they could do a better job and still get a nice return for themselves and their investors as I do not believe they couldn't have found an extra £50 or £60 million to purchase the two better options to either come off the bench or be a first team replacement for players like Stach who I think are not playing to their normal high level.

I think this season is presenting a rare window of opportunity for one or two clubs outside the so-called big 6 mega wealthy clubs to enter the top 6 as Spurs and Man U are in transition and looking quite average and even Liverpool and Chelsea have considerable issues in defence and midfield that I think Brighton and Brentford are certainly looking a good bet to finish top 6 and Leeds could also be considered too if they can strengthen in January.

I'm happy with the general direction of travel our owners are taking the club but whether you call it being a "conspiracy theorist" term invented by the CIA in 1963 to control the masses and insult and label people who didn't believe the official JFK shooting explanation that got too close to the truth, then so be it, I just want Leeds United to be the very best it can be like all of us and hope our owners can see the value of going that extra yard this season.

22 Sep 2026 12:18:40
Following on from my post yesterday (name the players you would like Leeds to have signed over the years - simple rules: must be realistic, you can only sign people we could have afforded at the time and, must be in the time period you've been following Leeds) .

You are allowed to choose players we were linked with, on the verge of signing but didn't or simply someone you wish we'd signed.

Here's my X1:

1- Peter Shilton (if Cloughie had remained, he would have signed him)

2 - John Gidman (we should have signed him around 77/78, excellent full back at the Villa at the time)

3 - Ben Chilwell (a lot of us were calling for cover at left back - he's an excellent player. Wages would be an issue though)

Centre backs - Bobby Moore (wanted to sign for Leeds according to his wife Tina) and Kevin Beattie (not aware of him being linked with us but he would have made a brilliant replacement for Norman Hunter)

Midfield -
Graeme Souness (we were in discussions in the mid 70s - direct replacement for King Billy)

James Garner (we should have beaten Everton for his signature!)

Gerrie Muhren (a bit left field this one - Arnold Muhren's older brother. Ipswich went for Arnold in the late 70s. Pity we didn't go for this brilliant playmaker a couple of years earlier)

Upfront -
Andy Gray (Villa took the chance on the Scot and he proved to be an out and out goalscorer - if only we had gone for him when big Joe Jordan went)

Trevor Francis (another we would have got had Cloughie remained - Francis always said that he wanted to play for Leeds)

Jared Bowen (could/should have signed him during Bielsa's reign, and should have had another go this summer)


Your turn guys - Baz mentioned Pat Jennings yesterday, an excellent choice.

JR also suggested 'your worst X1', those we should never have signed!

I'm going to add Roque Junior to his list!

Fire away with your choices guys - you've got a couple of weeks to kill before we play again: (.

22 Sep 2026 12:35:38
Great selection choices there Cleggy

My list so far.

Pat Jennings 1967
Frank Lampard 2000
Alan Shearer 1992

Be interested Cleggy if you have any suggestions for a pacy supreme defender LB in the DOL era 1997 to 2002.

Although Ian Harte was supreme on free kicks.against good teams he was a weak defensive link imo

Ashley Cole comes to mind but he was firmly a Gooner in that period.

22 Sep 2026 12:58:38
Glenn Hoddle 1979.

When our creative talisman Tony Currie very regettably left.I would have loved Leeds to have signed Glenn Hoddle from Spuds.

Leeds unwisely failed to sign a creative midfielder in any of the next 3 seasons and it played a huge part in their eventual relegation in 82.

22 Sep 2026 20:39:25
Ooof a full XL or as close as I can get (I'm 32 for the era context) .

GK - Dominik Livakovic. He's come up a few times over the years before we finally signed Trafford. Was always very cheap in the rumours weirdly for a class keeper.

LB - Josko Gvardiol. We were linked with him the summer before he moved to City. Not sure how close we were genuinely for him or was it one of Victor's long shots. Nevertheless it was reported.

CB - Joel Ward. Was a swiss army knife for Portsmouth right around the time we came up from the Championship and signed for Palace. They went up that same season. We got Jason Pearce instead. Safe to say who won that pick of Pompey defenders. They paid 400k for him and got a decade. Sure he came up as linked with us once or twice.

CB - Help!

RB - Resigning Denis Irwin - apparently we tried to, Ferguson turned the same phone call into asking the price for Cantona. if that had turned into Irwin for Cantona would have been more palatable than what actually transpired. Cheating slightly as before I was born but i've read enough about this story.

Midfield. Lampard and Rodrigo De Paul. Honourable mention for CAM for Charles De Ketelaere.

Wing - Cody Gakpo, Again it was the year before Liverpool signed him I think and he was rumoured to be the marquee signing of the window.

Wing - Kharavetskhalia when he was at Rubin Kazan as we were looking to replace Raphinha.

Forwards - Jonas Wind from the most recent window. He was a free agent target man who moved from Wolfsburg to Braga. Don't know if we were ever strictly linked but I'll maintain we should have done that one.

Erling Haaland - toured the club so I guess we had a shot when he was still at Molde in 2018.

11 I wish we hadn't signed. Imposed rule - its a combo of in some cases because they were terrible full stop or terrible for the money spent, context to the season.

Paul Rachubka - His mistakes vs Blackpool saw Alex Cairns get a debut.

Lb - Federico Bessone

CB - yeah Roque Junior gets the nod here.

CB - Max Wober.

RB - ermm.

LM - Cameron Stewart

CDM - Michael Brown - useless If you want a CAM instead, Adryan.

CM - Seth Johnson - if we dont sign him its because we signed Lampard.

RM - Jimmy Kebe (gosh that was a good window)

RS - Noel Hunt - Just didn't deliver and was a marquee free agent who took a hefty wage for nothing.

LS - Billy Paynter - see above. Between him and Bessone if just one of them had panned out we'd have made the play-offs first year back instead of 7th.

Honourable mentions for: Steve Morison in exchange for Becchio, Weston McKennie, Luke Varney, Robbie Fowler, Lonergan (second spell - first was decent) , Higgs, Casilla, Buononotte.

22 Sep 2026 23:58:04
Pretty good selections young Ealing

Very good picks on gk Livakovic ( much prefer we signed him this summer than the high budget Trafford and spent wedge in forward positions )

and Gvardiol ( if only)

As for the waste of moneys. no way Robbie Fowler ( say instead of the humungous waste of money JKA lol ) .Fowler was class his goals got Leeds into Europe.

23 Sep 2026 07:36:04
Good shouts there, Ealing!
Add Paul Okon as the replacement for
Olivier Dacourt!
Peter Barnes never delivered on his hype and price.
Ian Rush, Mark Hateley, and Lee Sharpe.
I'd add a question mark over Michael Brown; at least he got stuck in and battled, when that tenacity was severely lacking in the team.

23 Sep 2026 10:35:05
Brown I just remember as being a half step slow every game.

Fowler I thought was one of the hall marks of the overspend. We got half a good season for £12m that delivered uefa cup. It's not his fault but we didn't need another forward with smith viduka and Keane at the time. I can't remember if bridges was fit too or if the injuries had started. So less reflection on his abilities but I just wish we hadn't signed him.

23 Sep 2026 10:49:15
Leeds spent a sizeable whack on Lee Sharpe £4.5 million but Ian Rush was a free transfer and Mark Hateley merely a short term loan

The caveats to all three perfomances were that they all played in just the 1996/97 seez where George Graham perhaps rightly focused on Leeds being just uber defensive thst seez

conceding very few goals to defo avoid a R battle. but hardly scoring any either

most of our matches were nil nil or 1 nil in 96/97.

23 Sep 2026 10:57:09
Ealing.Bridges picked up what became a career ending injury in 2000.way before Fowler was signed.

Contrary to some peeps mistaken opinions we actually needed Fowler because we continually had lenghty injuries to not just Bridges who never played again.but also to Smith, Keane and Kewell

Fowler scored 1 goal every 2 games. a goodish signing imo

JKA and others on the list but not Fowler.

22 Sep 2026 02:13:02
Going back to Cleggy's question on players one wished Leeds United had signed.

In 2001 DOL and Leeds United were heavily linked to signing Frank Lampard.we missed out on some player there.